Pinwheel Farm lies quiet but for bird songs, the rustling of a llama in its pen and the not-so-distant wail of a train whistle. Yet Rickie Bridges, standing next to heaps of freshly sheared sheep’s ...

At daybreak on a freezing cold day high in the Andes, dozens of Peruvian peasants clamber up a mountainside to carry out a centuries-old tradition of shearing the highly-prized wool off vicunas, which ...

HETTINGER, N.D. - If left unshorn, a sheep's wool will simply never stop growing, until the animal can no longer move. To prevent the countryside from being littered with indolent, bleating balls of ...

Read the full report by the Center for Biological Diversity and Collective Fashion Justice's CIRCUMFAUNA Initiative. While the environmental impacts of the meat industry have gained significant ...

When Mitzi Baker walked into a meeting room recently, every head turned to admire the gray suit she was wearing. When she mentioned that her mother had knitted it, they were impressed. When she said ...

A ewe midway through shedding her fleece. Exlana sheep are a breed that do not need to be shorn at all. Photograph: Alexander Turner/The Guardian Shearing sheep can cost more than the wool is worth so ...

(KUTV) -- Utah wool producers have something important to say to PETA in response to its sheep billboard in Salt Lake City. "First thing that's important to understand about shearing is it's cruel and ...

BRITISH Wool has re-launched its training offer to young farmers. The organisation and the National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs (NFYFC) have enjoyed a strong relationship and collaborated in ...

Vicunas in Totoroma, Peru, ahead of the annual ancestral "chaccu" shearing - Copyright AFP Lillian SUWANRUMPHA Vicunas in Totoroma, Peru, ahead of the annual ...